One thing that does seem to be making the new "faster" chips more efficient is the promise of faster memory busses. Although it seems to crawl, the progression from 60ns memory to 70ns was a big deal. The 100 MHz mememory is a huge improvement, and now the 133 Mhz is more than a marginal increase because of the way memory is addressed. The illusive promise of a 200 MHz front-side bus will have to come packaged with a faster processor.
Also, with each generation there is the oportunity to put more memory on the chip. I wouldn't mind a 1.7 GHz processor with marginal processing improvements over a 500 MHz processor, if it had 2GB onboard 1.7 GHz memory.....
I agree....
I used to try to only upgrade every other "generation" of processors. I went from my 8088 (8 MHz) to 80386 (20 MHz), then, because of a series of opurtunities, and available income, my progression followed:
486-33 -> 486-66 -> Pentium-133
from there, I got a PentiumII notebook 233, and a PentiumII desktop at 350.
The most significant thing I've done is add memory and additional HD space. The old P133 is now running Linux, serving web pages, firewalling, IPforwarding, filesharing, DB seriving, etc, etc, etc.
I think that if it weren't for the slow HDs on the linux box, it would do most things as fast -- if not faster -- than the two PII/Win98 boxes....
anything that can be described mathmatically can be modeled, i.e. cell growth rates.
The models would be based on similar drugs and theoretical sets of constants and variables. After the modeling is complete the results can be compaired to actual clinical tests, and the model (i.e. simulation) can be refined.
Take the course of "crowds" (i.e. people moving in crowds are --> impossible to distiguish), and build a simple "duster" unit. Load a large suitcase with very finely ground [pick your offending agent] (say, gunpowder?) and blow it on everyone who walks through the main doors of the airport cassually. The variations here are astronomical. Every body and bag passing within several feet of the "duster" would then be contaminated with a harmless, but 10x dictable level of the agent.
Whalla! The terrorists just succeeded in shutting down an airport for an afternoon while EVERONE has to be screened.
Gee, I don't see the problem in using a preven method of identification that was used with terrific success all the way back in Worl War II.
The underground radio operators that transmitted info to the British listening stations by moris code (that dash-dot-dash stuff for you kiddies that don't even remember it). Each operator had an identifiable characteristic to the way they operated the key. I can't remember the term they used, but if the operators were captured by occupying forces, they were instructed to change their "hand" (we'll call it) to show distress without having to send a "I'm in trouble, and there's a very nice German officer with a Mauser pointed at the back of my head, making sure I don't tell you this," message to the listening post. At that point, the listening post would know to disreguard that operator's info as false inteligence.
Don't be too quick to write off proven technology, after all, it's been around and working well longer than the semiconductor.
I read the book years ago. Took me 9 months. I used it for a doorstop for 8.5 months before picking it up and finishing it. What a waste of time and braincells. I'm still haunted by memories of the stupidity of the book. (I cannot believe anyone would follow a religion invented by this guy!) The good thing about the movie would be that you can find out how bad a story this is in considerable less time than it would take to read the book. Even better, if you were to pay attention to the reviews, you wouldn't even have to waste the time watching the movie!
Somebody should send the Pentagon a copy of the Security HOWTO for Linux. One of the first things discussed is, "Don't assume they won't find you. Don't assume they won't look. Don't assume they won't find your weakness." (My wording.)
It's not the profiteers that I worry about... it's the buffoons. (I'm a pure-bred capitalist, and don't see any reason to disparage the seeking of profit. I do, however, agree that Amazon's "buffoons" are going about it with their heads up their butts.)
I have been silently hoping that Amazon.com would abandon thier patens under the presure of the boycots, but it seems that they have ignored that. My hesitation has been two-fold. 1) Great customer service, and 2) the fact that I'm an Amazon.com associate. Fortunately, switching my site over to B and N is only a matter of signing up, verifying all the titles and modifying a single script..... But I'd really rather not...
Not necessarily. New technologies often (but not always -- maybe not even "usually") come with lower energy requirements. Also, each pixel will not require the same amount of power since each will be considerably smaller. My guess is that in the worst case, it will only require twice as much power. Best case? maybe half? (Not that I have any information to base that on.) With refinement, I wouldn't be surprised to see this technology lower power consumption.
In the article, the project manager states that the technology will bring the resolution to the desktop. Screw that! You think people are going to leave this kind of resolution on their desktop? Heck no! This is going to cause a major shift in the handheld market. It's going to change the way we look at notebooks. It's going to change the way we look at PAPER! If this technology ever hits the streets, look for it to be used in ways you never imagined. (Sorry for the skeptasism, but so many promising technologies never make it out of the lab.) Sony's personal HUD system? full graphics pager on your watch?
If IBM and Toshiba will make the necessary information available, and make the licensing fees reasonable, they'll have a market for this product.
The only reason I'm interested in keeping MS in one piece is that maybe, just maybe, they'll be ble to do less damage this way. "Broken up," they might actually free up more capital, still work in sync together, and make a greater mess than MS already have.
Keep in mind, that I am NOT disputing the fact that MS is largely responsible for the permiation of computers into our society -- I just think that they've laid a foundation that we now have to tear out and re-lay.
Expanding on the distributed.net idea, would it be practicle to create a more general client for distributed computing?
Here's what I mean: The client would be written to actually accept algorithms via the internet and then accept the data to be crunched. Why?: Lots of people working on lots of computers and lots of power intense applications (I'm thinking along the lines of academic research, but this could be applied within corporations, too).
Premis: Those CPUs, some big some small, are not all busy all the time. With this client out there, those spare cycles could be used by others within the CPU-sharing-organization.
Example: All the computers in the Math department. Or, on a larger scale, several universities could coop thier super computers.
Sorry, I've just been drinking too much coffee, too late in the day...
Oh, yeah, even though none of the accusations of the deterious affect of DDT on the Bald Eagle (does it strike anyone as odd that it ONLY affect the eggs of the bald eagle?), we outlawed THE most effect and SAFE pesticide ever known.
Questions: - How many people have died from malaria since DDT went out of production? - How many people have died in accidents with the poisons we are forced to use now? The new pesticides don't just kill insects, they kill everything! - Whatever happened to sound science?
Bhopal: Union Carbide plamed for India's poorly educated workers refusing to follow safety proceedures and guidelines. UC paid dearly and mostly kept thier mouths shut.
Challenger: Several Engineers had tried to stop the use of the material in the O-rings. Several Engineers had tried to stop the launch that morning. Some NASA bearucrat pushed the launch through for internal political reasons.
Another Shoot Down: All of the bodies recovered from the water had been dead for more than 24 hours. Very little blood was present in the water. Suspected to be a ploy by the Iranian goverment to turn up the international Heat on the US. The approach of the "Irianian Jetliner" was wavetop and full throttle -- very un-jetliner behavior. It also failed repeatedly to respond to hails.
Cold Fussion: To date, the results of Fleischmann and Pons have been replicated by 20-30 researchers -- Including Chemists at Texas A&M and Arizona State. There's something else going on here.
Y2K Bug: I agree with the previous post about the cost of the Y2K bug.
I love it when we have good, strong competition in the computer industry (or any other industry for that matter). memory sticks in the Palm will make them that much more usable.
As a 'web guy', I am alway conscious of the security of my scripts. I carefully watch for openings that could comprimize a clients site due to my oversite.
Had the NT gone down to a CGI loophole, there would not have been great celibrations. The OS should not be criticized do to a CGI programer's ignorance or arogance.
Unless both systems were running the same web server, and the same set of scirpts, the whole contest is really irrelivant. Until they install Apache on both boxes and choose a common scripting platform, they are wasting everyone's time.
Actually, there is no penalty in taxes, just 'honesty.' Those taxes would have been paid by your employer if you had one, they just would have been calculated as part of your 'total salery package' (which includes benifits) and hidden from you.
I could really get started on taxes, but I'll save that for another forum.
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One thing that does seem to be making the new "faster" chips more efficient is the promise of faster memory busses. Although it seems to crawl, the progression from 60ns memory to 70ns was a big deal. The 100 MHz mememory is a huge improvement, and now the 133 Mhz is more than a marginal increase because of the way memory is addressed. The illusive promise of a 200 MHz front-side bus will have to come packaged with a faster processor.
Also, with each generation there is the oportunity to put more memory on the chip. I wouldn't mind a 1.7 GHz processor with marginal processing improvements over a 500 MHz processor, if it had 2GB onboard 1.7 GHz memory.....
sigh.....
I agree....
I used to try to only upgrade every other "generation" of processors. I went from my 8088 (8 MHz) to 80386 (20 MHz), then, because of a series of opurtunities, and available income, my progression followed:
486-33 -> 486-66 -> Pentium-133
from there, I got a PentiumII notebook 233, and a PentiumII desktop at 350.
The most significant thing I've done is add memory and additional HD space. The old P133 is now running Linux, serving web pages, firewalling, IPforwarding, filesharing, DB seriving, etc, etc, etc.
I think that if it weren't for the slow HDs on the linux box, it would do most things as fast -- if not faster -- than the two PII/Win98 boxes....
anything that can be described mathmatically can be modeled, i.e. cell growth rates.
The models would be based on similar drugs and theoretical sets of constants and variables. After the modeling is complete the results can be compaired to actual clinical tests, and the model (i.e. simulation) can be refined.
I'm not going to argue with you about using an open source DB for any given application -- that's a waste of bandwidth.
However, Chapter 15 of the MySQL manual explains how to add new functions and proceedures....
http://www.mysql.com
tcx claims to be running some giga-huge db on thier linux based computer and having never had a problem.....
I dun'know....
Take the course of "crowds" (i.e. people moving in crowds are --> impossible to distiguish), and build a simple "duster" unit. Load a large suitcase with very finely ground [pick your offending agent] (say, gunpowder?) and blow it on everyone who walks through the main doors of the airport cassually. The variations here are astronomical. Every body and bag passing within several feet of the "duster" would then be contaminated with a harmless, but 10x dictable level of the agent.
Whalla! The terrorists just succeeded in shutting down an airport for an afternoon while EVERONE has to be screened.
Gee, I don't see the problem in using a preven method of identification that was used with terrific success all the way back in Worl War II.
The underground radio operators that transmitted info to the British listening stations by moris code (that dash-dot-dash stuff for you kiddies that don't even remember it). Each operator had an identifiable characteristic to the way they operated the key. I can't remember the term they used, but if the operators were captured by occupying forces, they were instructed to change their "hand" (we'll call it) to show distress without having to send a "I'm in trouble, and there's a very nice German officer with a Mauser pointed at the back of my head, making sure I don't tell you this," message to the listening post. At that point, the listening post would know to disreguard that operator's info as false inteligence.
Don't be too quick to write off proven technology, after all, it's been around and working well longer than the semiconductor.
I read the book years ago. Took me 9 months. I used it for a doorstop for 8.5 months before picking it up and finishing it. What a waste of time and braincells. I'm still haunted by memories of the stupidity of the book. (I cannot believe anyone would follow a religion invented by this guy!) The good thing about the movie would be that you can find out how bad a story this is in considerable less time than it would take to read the book. Even better, if you were to pay attention to the reviews, you wouldn't even have to waste the time watching the movie!
Somebody should send the Pentagon a copy of the Security HOWTO for Linux. One of the first things discussed is, "Don't assume they won't find you. Don't assume they won't look. Don't assume they won't find your weakness." (My wording.)
It's not the profiteers that I worry about... it's the buffoons. (I'm a pure-bred capitalist, and don't see any reason to disparage the seeking of profit. I do, however, agree that Amazon's "buffoons" are going about it with their heads up their butts.)
I have been silently hoping that Amazon.com would abandon thier patens under the presure of the boycots, but it seems that they have ignored that. My hesitation has been two-fold. 1) Great customer service, and 2) the fact that I'm an Amazon.com associate. Fortunately, switching my site over to B and N is only a matter of signing up, verifying all the titles and modifying a single script..... But I'd really rather not...
Not necessarily. New technologies often (but not always -- maybe not even "usually") come with lower energy requirements. Also, each pixel will not require the same amount of power since each will be considerably smaller. My guess is that in the worst case, it will only require twice as much power. Best case? maybe half? (Not that I have any information to base that on.) With refinement, I wouldn't be surprised to see this technology lower power consumption.
In the article, the project manager states that the technology will bring the resolution to the desktop. Screw that! You think people are going to leave this kind of resolution on their desktop? Heck no! This is going to cause a major shift in the handheld market. It's going to change the way we look at notebooks. It's going to change the way we look at PAPER! If this technology ever hits the streets, look for it to be used in ways you never imagined. (Sorry for the skeptasism, but so many promising technologies never make it out of the lab.) Sony's personal HUD system? full graphics pager on your watch?
If IBM and Toshiba will make the necessary information available, and make the licensing fees reasonable, they'll have a market for this product.
The only reason I'm interested in keeping MS in one piece is that maybe, just maybe, they'll be ble to do less damage this way. "Broken up," they might actually free up more capital, still work in sync together, and make a greater mess than MS already have.
Keep in mind, that I am NOT disputing the fact that MS is largely responsible for the permiation of computers into our society -- I just think that they've laid a foundation that we now have to tear out and re-lay.
Dune sucked! I'm serious here. I'm not baiting flame.
Read it again. "Ornathopters?" Come ON, Frank! I read Dune, and I was so turned off by Frank Hurbert that I've never read another one of his books.
Yeah, there was a good story there, but Frank didn't tell it!
Expanding on the distributed.net idea, would it be practicle to create a more general client for distributed computing?
Here's what I mean:
The client would be written to actually accept algorithms via the internet and then accept the data to be crunched.
Why?:
Lots of people working on lots of computers and lots of power intense applications (I'm thinking along the lines of academic research, but this could be applied within corporations, too).
Premis: Those CPUs, some big some small, are not all busy all the time. With this client out there, those spare cycles could be used by others within the CPU-sharing-organization.
Example: All the computers in the Math department. Or, on a larger scale, several universities could coop thier super computers.
Sorry, I've just been drinking too much coffee, too late in the day...
Oh, yeah, even though none of the accusations of the deterious affect of DDT on the Bald Eagle (does it strike anyone as odd that it ONLY affect the eggs of the bald eagle?), we outlawed THE most effect and SAFE pesticide ever known.
Questions:
- How many people have died from malaria since DDT went out of production?
- How many people have died in accidents with the poisons we are forced to use now? The new pesticides don't just kill insects, they kill everything!
- Whatever happened to sound science?
Bhopal:
Union Carbide plamed for India's poorly educated workers refusing to follow safety proceedures and guidelines. UC paid dearly and mostly kept thier mouths shut.
Challenger:
Several Engineers had tried to stop the use of the material in the O-rings. Several Engineers had tried to stop the launch that morning. Some NASA bearucrat pushed the launch through for internal political reasons.
Another Shoot Down:
All of the bodies recovered from the water had been dead for more than 24 hours. Very little blood was present in the water. Suspected to be a ploy by the Iranian goverment to turn up the international Heat on the US. The approach of the "Irianian Jetliner" was wavetop and full throttle -- very un-jetliner behavior. It also failed repeatedly to respond to hails.
Cold Fussion:
To date, the results of Fleischmann and Pons have been replicated by 20-30 researchers -- Including Chemists at Texas A&M and Arizona State. There's something else going on here.
Y2K Bug:
I agree with the previous post about the cost of the Y2K bug.
I love it when we have good, strong competition in the computer industry (or any other industry for that matter). memory sticks in the Palm will make them that much more usable.
I disagree.
As a 'web guy', I am alway conscious of the security of my scripts. I carefully watch for openings that could comprimize a clients site due to my oversite.
Had the NT gone down to a CGI loophole, there would not have been great celibrations. The OS should not be criticized do to a CGI programer's ignorance or arogance.
Unless both systems were running the same web server, and the same set of scirpts, the whole contest is really irrelivant. Until they install Apache on both boxes and choose a common scripting platform, they are wasting everyone's time.
Actually, there is no penalty in taxes, just 'honesty.' Those taxes would have been paid by your employer if you had one, they just would have been calculated as part of your 'total salery package' (which includes benifits) and hidden from you.
I could really get started on taxes, but I'll save that for another forum.